1.27 Training facilities continued to be provided for technical and assistant professional staff. Altogether 19 Apprentices, 222 Craft Apprentices and 77 Technical Apprentices, who had signed agreements to follow a course of instruction over a period of four or five years, were being trained part-time in the Waterworks or Mechanical Workshops and part-time at the Polytechnic/Morrison Hill Technical Institute.
1.28 A total of 37 engineering graduates from the University of Hong Kong were on indenture to the Director of Engineering Development as Apprentice Engineers to gain some of the experience required for the professional interview of the Institution of Civil Engineers. Four Apprentice Architects, four Apprentice Electrical Engineers and seven Apprentice Mechanical Engineers were also under training.
1.29 The Principal Government Land Agent undertook the training of 18 Surveying Assistants (Land) and 28 Surveying Assistants (Engineering).
1.30 During the summer vacation, 28 students from the University of Hong Kong were attached to this Department. Five were attached to the Architectural Office, 14 to Civil Engineering Office and Highways Office, three to Waterworks Office and six were given instruction in the Electrical and Mechanical Office.
1.31 Altogether 47 officers of the Department were on, or completed, courses during the year in Britain, Australia or the United States of America. Some of these courses were taken while the officers were on vacation leave.
1.32 Further details of training are included in the sections dealing with individual offices.
May 1972
VISITORS
1.33 Mr. G. H. FRANKLIN, of the Ministry of Overseas Development, visited Crown Lands and Survey Office.
August 1972
1.34 Dr. H. J. BUCHOLTZ, of Ruhr University, West Germany, visited Crown Lands and Survey Office.
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